Tackling COVID-19 as a Grand Challenge
How does this crisis relate to other grand challenges and how should we address the coronavirus that has triggered it?
Sarah Stephen
Lecturer in Strategy and Business Ethics at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in Economics, specialising in Management, from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the intersection of society, the environment, and organizations, particularly in relation to environmental responsibility, ESG and responsible investing, climate action, and ethical decision-making.
How Businesses Can Help Society Navigate COVID-19
For those looking to commit to action, we have identified six themes that are fundamental to our ability to function and move forward as a society.
COVID-19 and the destitution of workers in global supply chains
We need to focus our attention on identifying the human costs of such supply chain shocks and devising solutions to better safeguard the workers on whom we all depend – but so often fail to protect.
Regulating charities: snakes or ladders?
We examine two charities (a museum and a disability rights organization) that were in breach of this soft regulation; however, we suggest each faced different levels of reputational risk by doing so. We argue that charities are most at risk of being perceived as acting inappropriately when they breach regulations that are aimed at financial propriety.
Responding to slow onset disasters: the boiling frog syndrome
Hope & cooperation or fear & despair: how does humanity respond to slow onset disasters?
Rapid Responsible Innovation in Times of Corona: Three Months Later
We provide a more extensive —but still incomplete— list of initiatives than the one we previously presented back in March; this time, the rapid responsible innovation is organized by stakeholder recipient of the innovation.
Companies vs Coronavirus: A Call for Rapid Responsible Innovation
This note is both a call for immediate action and hopefully also inspiration for companies to act against the COVID-19/Coronavirus outbreak in the form of rapid responsible innovation — innovation developed in a short period of time in a state of emergency with the hope of protecting people and saving lives.
Values may be the clue to building greener businesses
Our paper highlights the key role that values can play in addressing the profoundly urgent, messy and contentious issue of climate change.
From corona anxiety towards a new Enlightenment – Why a return to normal is not a meaningful option
ur crisis is a narrative crisis and it will not be solved by new technologies, but by new stories and new metaphors that enable us to see the world from a radically different perspective.
How We Respond to COVID-19 Foreshadows Future Life in the Anthropocene
In COVID-19, we are facing the ultimate prisoner’s dilemma where our survival depends upon our collective actions and, as a result, the morality of individual actions takes on new meaning. This challenge shares many commonalities with the challenge of the Anthropocene.
